Mariah Carey’s Former Assistant Suing for Back Pay

Peter Kramer/NBCRemember when Lady Gaga‘s former personal assistant sued her for back pay, claiming she’d been overworked and treated unfairly? Well, now the same thing is happening to Mariah Carey.

The New York Post reports that the former staffer, Ylser Oliver, is claiming in a lawsuit that starting in 2007, she worked 16-hour days for Mariah, and never got any overtime, despite doing everything from packing for Mariah, cleaning her house, answering phones, shopping for her, arranging for services and repairs to her house, and “caring for” her family and friends. Oliver quit this year.

Oliver’s lawyer tells the Post, “My client put her family’s life on hold while tending to Mariah Carey’s family, and Mariah repaid her by underpaying her. her. My client is a very hardworking woman who treated Mariah and her family like her own, working all hours of the day and night. Even celebrities are required to abide by the law.”

He added that Oliver is suing for “a significant amount” of money, because she was entitled to time-and-a-half if she worked more than 40 hours a week.

Mariah’s rep told the paper, “I can’t comment on anything that I’m not aware of and we haven’t heard anything about this lawsuit.”